Particle motion in CFB cyclones as observed by positron emission particle tracking

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 253-261

  Chan, Chian W ^b   Seville, Jonathan P K ^b   Fan, Xianfeng ^a   Baeyens, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED PROCESS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; LOADING; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; POSITRONS; PRESSURE DROP;

AIR VELOCITIES; AXIAL VELOCITY COMPONENTS; CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BEDS; CROSS SECTIONS; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; HIGH-SOLIDS; PARTICLE MOTIONS; PARTICLE MOVEMENTS; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; POSITRON EMISSION PARTICLE TRACKING; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLIDS FLOWS; SOLIDS LOADINGS; SPIRAL MOTIONS; TRACER PARTICLES; WALL LAYERS;

STORMS;

EID: 61649128056     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie800213g     Document Type: Article

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